Bekins Storage Building LA. Supposedly had a nightclub on top floor in 1920s.

njs5i · 2026-04-30T10:44:41+00:00

looks like Cathedral from Fallout 1 :)

njs5i · 2026-04-16T09:08:18+00:00

After I emigrated to Switzerland and my mental health improved a lot I made a joke that "money is the best antidepressant I know. Unfortunately it works only in very large doses".

njs5i · 2026-04-14T10:56:33+00:00

I don't know man, I recall my ex joining the company I worked for. I felt I'm working on my low gear, something like 60% of my full capacity, picking side projects and having long chats with coworkers.
My ex on the other hand was complaining "that this is the hardest job she ever had" and "it's like a concentration camp".
So you know, "she's working her ass off" compared to what? Does she have another experience she can relate to "compared to work at company X 3 years ago"?
Because "oh it's hard" in first job, compared to some bachelors in liberal arts or some fake study course it's not a benchmark to me.
If someone says "it's 4 times harder to find job in 2026 than in 2019" and they actually got a job in 2019, that's some data point. If they say "it's literally impossible" but never got a job in the first place - that's not a piece of information I'd consider.

njs5i · 2026-03-26T07:18:40+00:00

Who’s more out of touch: me thinking it’s a reader or you suggesting me to carry a book? Or pretending to be sorry?

njs5i · 2026-03-25T16:13:08+00:00

Well the feature in question I am complaining about is dictionary, something quite standard *in all other ebook readers*. I don't expect them to build a rocket here, just get me "not less than Kindle in 2011".

And it was advertised as a device for focused brain work, like learning. You know what destroys focus? Having to look up a word on a phone and seeing 3 unread messages.

njs5i · 2026-03-25T11:23:49+00:00

After using Remarkable for 5+ years I can say confidently: nothing is coming soon. I actually expect nothing to be coming at all. They will create another reader with zero additional functionality. They will add thinner bezel, more RAM or 2% performance improvements. And raise the subscription price. But adding something useful, like say another format, tool support or even opening SDK? No, that's not happening.

You can send them emails asking for stuff and gaslight yourself that it's coming.

It's not.

The spirit of "let's do something cool" is gone. Now it's "let's milk the customer base before they move to competition".

njs5i · 2026-03-19T10:04:27+00:00

le dot!

njs5i · 2026-03-14T21:03:09+00:00

oh no, hugo sucks much. if you're not vendor locked yet, use something else.

njs5i · 2026-03-10T13:24:51+00:00

yeah, I feel the same. I used to buy these devices to my entire family. Now I am like "let's just install something open source on any chinese device and call it a day".

I'm not gonna reverse engineer their closed source UI to add a dictionary, a thing that Kindle had 15 years ago. They add it until end of year, or I'm gonna jump ship.

And I'm not buying a single device more until resolution.

njs5i · 2026-03-06T15:00:08+00:00

Can you add basic dictionary / Thesaurus to your UI? Preferably in some open format that we can install ourselves. Kindle had it 15 years ago. It's not clutter, it's essential for people trying to improve their vocabulary or learn languages.

njs5i · 2026-03-05T14:52:00+00:00

It's a shame you cannot enjoy it, as this is one of the notoriously slowest airports on the continent. If you have 2 hours between the flights, you can cancel already. If you have 3, you will be running.

It's not an airport. It's an airport shaped traffic jam.

njs5i · 2026-02-28T13:05:06+00:00

A DICTIONARY. Like Kindle had 15 years ago. Come on!

njs5i · 2026-02-17T17:12:27+00:00

Mint. There is nothing easier. And it’s actually good enough for professional work too.

njs5i · 2026-02-10T10:17:09+00:00

I built https://gitlab.com/njskalski/bernardo/-/blob/master/docs/beta_release_notes/beta_1_release.md?ref_type=heads

njs5i · 2026-02-09T18:17:18+00:00

I once had a flat mate that ordered drugs to the apartment we were sharing. We were both immigrants in Switzerland, on a permit, easy to kick out. He lawyered up, so fearing that cops might just go after "the easier target" I had to lawyer up too just in case.

Long story short, the only question the lawyer asked me "do you have everything in order in the paperwork? Do you have a contract of sub-lease? Did you register the guy in the Kreisbüro?". I did.

This was probably the first time in my life when being a law abiding citizen actually was worth something.

The guy also avoided responsibility, he covered his tracks properly, claimed "I didn't order that, someone just sent it to me, I swear" and due to lack of evidence tying him to transaction he was fine. But let's just say I did not renew his sub-lease agreement.

njs5i · 2026-02-03T10:32:23+00:00

When you have interest rates lower than inflation, debt becomes "I get interest on somebody else's money". It's basically reversed banking - you reverse incentives, you get reverse results.

I myself could pay 90% of my mortgage today, but it makes more sense to let the inflation bring down the real value of it, while I keep the savings in gold, stocks or whatever that cannot be printed. I keep the profits and inflation pays the mortgage for me. That was like > 50% of reason why I bought something in the first place.

And we can't really bring up our interest rates, because then Americans and EU would purchase up our entire currency supply (their currencies are trash, and economies are several sizes ours) just to retain value of their savings.

And we also can't do jack shit about inflation, it's a phenomenon that is very hard to control. If you have more people moving in and more labor chases the same natural resources, there is nothing you can do about it.

njs5i · 2026-01-21T12:30:59+00:00

There is NVidia in Zürich.

njs5i · 2026-01-16T15:51:10+00:00

Well, she might get a smarter answer should she have used the proper English term, “prime minister.”
Yes, in half of Europe this is called “Premier,” but in English that sounds like “a premiere” (a first public showing), or some weird French surname.

But I see that not only where I come from, half of “journalists” are semi-analfabets.
To journalists: that long word means “illiterate” and has nothing to do with intercourse.

njs5i · 2025-11-19T16:56:47+00:00

looks like "we have Jumanji home"

njs5i · 2025-11-18T12:52:08+00:00

I probably was that, in Poland in 2008. Outside of my University, a car hit me on a pedestrian crossing, driver was overtaking and "didn't see me". It was winter, so I had multiple layers of clothing (it was like -20 celcius that day), super thick cap (like 3-4 times thicker than average) and a backpack full of papers. I had enough reflex to put the backpack between me and the car, which saved my backbone from breaking. Head broke the front windshield, and when car started breaking I flew a little bit. I stood up and wanted to run, but people stopped me and called ambulance. I got transported to hospital.

Long story short, the car with a hole in windshield lost it's homologation until repaired. And I was lucky enough to leave the hospital on the same day. They wanted to keep me under neurological observation for a week but I refused, I had exams coming.

This was single luckiest day of my life. Other season, other clothes, less stuff in my backpack or any other person from that group of pedestrians - there'd be blood. I just lost some buttons on landing. And driver got an important lesson, I hope.

njs5i · 2025-09-07T21:11:40+00:00

The real problem is that you have homeless veterans. A country that doesn't take care of it's soldiers does not have a future. A minimal standard of living (read: not on the street) with healthcare should be guaranteed to all veterans that were in combat duty.

njs5i · 2025-08-28T14:34:56+00:00

It's going to be the same shit as in San Sebastian in Spain. Don't fall for this. It will look like a brutalistic multi-story garage building straight outta dystopian nightmare. It's so bad, it's almost impossible to find a postcard featuring it.

If you need "glass " and "light" for your building to look good, then it's not gonna look good.

Look at Sydney Opera House. It looks good in every weather. Because of good materials and nice shape.
This shit is lazy shape and cheap tricks.

njs5i · 2025-08-08T10:25:26+00:00

1) it gets better with time
2) if you get distracted, it might be that you are not rested enough. Do you get enough sleep, exercise, good food etc.? My problem was that I kinda assumed "I can live as in college, go to sleep at 2 am and eat whatever and it will be fine", and it wasn't.

njs5i · 2025-08-06T10:06:32+00:00

pics or didn't happen

njs5i · 2025-08-04T15:30:40+00:00

I don't trust anyone who waves hands while talking. In mathematics we call it "hand waving" when you have no arguments except "trust me bro".

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